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The title of this story is over the top. The document confirms nothing. It says "someone claimed some flying saucers have been recovered. We decided it's a matter not worth pursuin…

This law basically says that if you do e-commerce, you better not have your service hosted in France. If you're not hosted in France, you might as well not pay any taxes in the cou…

I don't know why your answer was downvoted, you are spot on.

Notice that many of these services offer copyrighted contents online. I think the primary issues they had with doing business outside the U.S. is that there are less copyrighted la…

and would probably be cheaper.

direct link to the google preview http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Finformation-t...

I'm not a typographer, but I am a reader and I don't agree with his opinion that the list with hanging bullets makes it more legible. I find them slightly confusing. Maybe it's my …

This wikipedia article shed some light, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid , but yes that seems to be a more accurate depiction of the physical Earth. Pictures of planets taken fro…

No he's suggesting to allow people to log in with their email and let them pick whatever username/nickname they want. Think Stackoverflow for example.

It's not too late to change its name.

Come on young rubyist. embrace the dark side. You will like it. /jk I adopted Python because I was told Ruby is the dark side. oO

I had a reply that said a few things along those line, deleted it. Yours is much better. Just wanted to add a few things: 1- some contributions in this world are only accidentally …

In this context it is. There may be some serious implications when saying that x or y pattern in language z is considered harmful. In Java accessors are almost mandatory if you int…

Also, many (not all of them) designers don't understand the difficulties of usability, and sometimes mistakes it with "shiny". Usability of a desktop application is way more comple…

Zed Shaw has some guidelines about that http://learnpythonthehardway.org . You'll learn some basic programming in a very good and versatile language. I learned web programming a fe…

How about having a news thread dedicated to articles considered off-topic, that yet still manage to garner enough interest from the HN crowd. That of course does not nullify the gu…

Hahaha man, are you a comedian? I can't even downvote you. Why would you think I would care to? lol.

Looking at that thread, I think I understand what's going on, which was really not very clear from your intervention. I thought you were being petty about terminology. I could not …

I just told you I was not trying to be literal. I used the term because the assumption is that HN is for good hackers in the sense that it is employed in the guidelines, intellectu…

Eh, I try to be a nice guy, I like to assume the best of most people. Of course the voters are good hackers.

Dude, I'm just another HN reader who decided to support this cause. If you made a point in your original message, I most certainly did miss it. You have issues with paypal and emai…

I don't think I have a problem with it yet, because I'm rationalizing. It somehow makes sense. I'm not sure I would feel the same if someone I cared for decided this would be the s…